"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing" - Victor Hugo

Erik Vance

Erik Vance is a science writer native to the Bay Area replanted in Mexico City as a non-native invasive. Like many in his field, he couldn’t really hack it as a scientist and now works as a professional groupie. That said, “science groupie” is just the best job he can imagine, especially in Mexico. A contributing editor at Discover Magazine, his work often focuses on interesting characters in ocean and brain sciences.

He often claims the m-dash is superior to the comma but secretly he just wishes the semicolon would come back into fashion.

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Science is first of all about discovery (the first word on everything). But the more science knows, the more it realizes what it doesn't know (the last word on nothing). Curiosity and humility: the human condition.

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It's an illustration from a display at the Field Museum in Chicago. It shows the different types of symmetry of life forms on Earth.

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